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VOLUME 1

PREFACE

STUDIES IN THE POETRY OF ITALY. PART I. THE DRAMA

1. THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMAN LITERATURE. AND OLD ROMAN TRAGEDY

2. LATER ROMAN TRAGEDY AND SENECA

3. ROMAN COMEDY

SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART II. SATIRE

1. INTRODUCTION AND EARLY SATIRE

2. QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS

3. AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS

4. DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS

SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART III. EPIC POETRY

1. CN. NÆVIUS—THE FIRST NATIONAL. ROMAN EPIC

2. QUINTUS ENNIUS

3. PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO

SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VOLUME 2

PREFACE

STUDIES IN THE POETRY OF ITALY. CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN LITERATURE

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER II. DANTE: LIFE AND MINOR WORKS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III. THE DIVINE COMEDY

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IV. PETRARCH

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER V. BOCCACCIO

CHAPTER VI. THE RENAISSANCE AND ARIOSTO

CHAPTER VII. TASSO

CHAPTER VIII. THE PERIOD OF DECADENCE AND THE REVIVAL

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[Aside.] Doth he thus love his sons? 'Tis well; Then is he bound, and in his armored strength this flaw Reveals the place to strike.

Here, apparently, is the first suggestion to Medea of the most terrible part of the revenge which she was to take upon Jason. The obvious revenge upon Creon and his daughter, as well as upon her husband, Medea had already foreshadowed in her opening words; but her deadly passion had not yet been aimed at her children. It is true that twice she had bitterly renounced them, once to the nurse, and again but now to Jason himself, since they were Jason's also, and were likely now to be brothers to the sons of her hated rival; nevertheless her mother-love still is strong. But now, by Jason's unfortunate emphasis upon the love he bears his sons, she sees a chance to obtain that measure of revenge which in her heart she has already resolved to find. And yet this thought is so terrible to her that, even though we see her shape her present course in reference to it, it is evident that she gives it no more than a subconscious existence.

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